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Netgear Orbi RBS350
Are there any benifits running a homeplug from the RBR350 to a RBS350 that is having problems connecting wirelessly?
Or are homeplugs not designed for these units?
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The area is full of concrete walls and moving it closer to the RBR350 I may as well put it in the same room.
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claynz wrote:
Are there any benifits running a homeplug from the RBR350 to a RBS350 that is having problems connecting wirelessly?
Or are homeplugs not designed for these units?
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The area is full of concrete walls and moving it closer to the RBR350 I may as well put it in the same room.
Concrete usually also has rebar inside, which can certainly block wifi. If you haven't tried shifting either the router or the satellite a bit (not necessarily moving them closer together), you might want to try that. There might be something on the particular signal path that you might be able to avoid. I have a pipe chase in my own home that blocks some signal (and the chimney does as well). Large appliances can also block the signal.
Homeplug tech just creates an ethernet connection, so you can use it to create a wired backhaul to the RBS350.
I haven't used powerline networking for a while, but when I played with it I found the performance to be hit or miss - depending on both wiring and circuit loading. The only way to really tell how will it will work on an outlet pair is to try it.
Don't believe the theoretical speeds, if it works decently you'll likely end up with about 70-80 mbps. So not blazing speed.
If there is coax running to the room for TV, then there are also some ethernet-over-coax products you could look into. Look for MoCA 2.5 adapters. They should be able to co-exist with your cable TV, and from what I've read offer significantly better performance than homeplug.
If there is wiring conduit in the walls (likely with concrete), it might also be practical to run an ethernet cable.
Thanks for the detailed reply, could you possibly move this post to the correct group?
One room above is a mission as it is on a different phase than downstairs so homeplugs are out of the question and the RBS350 is up and down, mostly down. I'm wanting to turn the room into a office so might run a cable from downstairs but still won't give a stable wifi signal, could just put in a small switch to run PC, printer and smart TV from it.
Is there a iPhone app out there that can check for good signals around the home for suitable placements of the 4 x Satellites?
claynz wrote:
so might run a cable from downstairs but still won't give a stable wifi signal
If you connect the RBR350 to the RBS350 with ethernet, then you should be automatically switched to a wired backhaul. So if you put the RBS in the office, and run the cable to it, then you should get a good wifi signal there.
You should be able to put a switch on the same path if you need local ethernet in the office.
claynz wrote:
Is there a iPhone app out there that can check for good signals around the home for suitable placements of the 4 x Satellites?
Not that I know of. Would be nice, but my understanding is that there are limitations in the Apple SDK that get in the way.
There are some you can install on a Windows laptop (I've used netspot). No idea about Macs, since I don't use one.
